CfP (yearbook): Populäre Lieder im langen 19. Jahrhundert / Popular Songs in the Long 19th Century

Deadline: 15 May 2019 (abstracts); 31 January 2020 (full articles)
We invite you to submit articles for the volume 65 (2020) “Populäre Lieder im langen 19. Jahrhundert / Popular Songs in the Long 19th Century” of the yearbook “Lied und Populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture”. The yearbook is published by the Zentrum fuer Populäre Kultur und Musik (Freiburg University).

Potential contributors are asked to send abstracts of not more than 2,000 characters including spaces as well as a short academic CV by 15 May 2019. By the end of May, you will receive feedback on the acceptance of your contribution. The contributions should cover 35,000 to 50,000 characters including spaces and should be submitted by 31 January 2020. Please send any inquiries or abstracts to Knut Holtsträter (jahrbuch -at- zpkm.uni-freiburg.de). We accept contributions in German or English.

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Nominations for the Executive Committee and for auditors should be submitted to the Secretary at least 1 month before the General Meeting. The Secretary communicates nominations to the Association’s members immediately following the closing date for nominations and makes a full list of nominations available at the General Meeting

Please notice that we are calling nominations for all positions on the Executive Committee. Members of the current Executive Committee who may wish to stay on their positions will have to be nominated and – in case – re-elected to those positions.

Experts, non-experts and the participatory production of knowledge. The case of popular music research (Volume! The French Journal of Popular Music Studies)
Editors: Christophe Pirenne and Christophe Levaux (University of Liège, Belgium)

If anyone is in the Memphis area at the end of this month, there are still a few places left for the Balancing The Mix conference on popular music and social justice, which will take place at the University of Memphis on Saturday 30th March.

A new issue of Journal of Popular Music Studies has just been posted. At the IASPM-US web page you can read about it, survey a list of books published in the first months of 2019 (let us know what we’ve missed or what’s coming out next quarter), and see the winners for best book and best article at our most recent conference. Enjoy! (from Eric Weisbard)